New York‘s Vulture blog had a delightful interview with Melanie Hutsell, a former SNL vet who had a cameo in Bridesmaids as Kristen Wiig’s tennis partner.  Yes, she looked familiar to us, too!!  Hutsell had a sweet story to share about Jane Lynch:

Your castmate Ellen Cleghorne was wonderful and just disappeared.
I am in complete agreement with you. I have thought about her so much over the years; I don’t know where she is. I really don’t know and it’s sad. A huge inspiration to me is Jane Lynch, whom I’ve known for twenty years. We were in [the Chicago stage play] The Real Life Brady Bunch together; she played Mrs. Brady, and we had so much fun onstage. She came to my house after my daughter was born, and she was down and worried about her career. My mom said, “You’ve just got to hang in there and keep going.” It was one of those moments I will never forget. I swear, a few months later her career took off. So my mom and I take full credit! You get so close and want to throw in the towel and something will happen. I’m working on a pilot now called The Waffle Hut with [Bridesmaids'] Wendy McLendon and Mo Collins [from Mad TV], and we develop our own characters. And I did a video for Funny or Die I am so excited about. I play a middle-aged woman in an aerobics class, and she only does the exercises modified and everyone else has rock-hard bodies.

Relatedly, have you all seen Bridesmaids at least twice yet?  If not, get on it.  Go on, we won’t tell the boss.